THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES WASN’T MEANT TO BE A HOW-TOO BOOK: First, we’re told that fourteen year-old girls are supposed to pretend that the classmate in their locker room with the penis is really a girl. Today, we’re told that women on the slightly darker side of European-Caucasian skin tone (that is, Reps. AOC and Tlaib) have “brown skin.” Aaron Blake: The unmistakable ugliness of Trump urging brown-skinned congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries.

And it’s not just the U.S. Remember when the fair-skinned Algerian Malia Bouattia was declared to be “first Black president” of the UK’s National Union of Students?